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Anatase On Smoky Quartz

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Anatase On Smoky Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Le Catogne, Sembrancher, Bagnes Valley, Valais, Switzerland
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.9 × 2.7 × 2.2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.80cm
Description

More than 25 very good, glossy black, large anatase crystals up to 0.8 cm on a group of smoky quartz crystals.

The smoky quartz crystals are damaged, most of the anatase crystals are fine to near perfect.

Very seldom you see such a rich specimen with top quality crystals from Switzerland.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Anatase

Formula: 
TiO2
Strunz: 
4.DD.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
St Christophe-en-Oisans, Bourg d'Oisans, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France...

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Hardness: 
0.0

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